medicate
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Adrian Aceves, a physician living in downtown Washington, said he'd be staying in with his five-year-old mutt Rosy, "trying to distract her with treats and toys, and I will medicate her."
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
Unfortunately, alpha-synuclein has proven an especially challenging protein to medicate due to its unruly, disorganized form and lack of clear druggable structures, Disney added.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 9, 2024
But even after getting a diagnosis, Hutchings says the response was to "medicate someone, put them in the corner, and hope they get 'better.'"
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2023
Mr Stanton added that if people had flu to try and manage it at home and medicate, and only go into hospital if it was an absolute emergency.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2023
“I’m angry! Why can’t you let me be angry? Why do you have to medicate away everything I feel?”
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
Distracted by the recent death of his wife — whose loss he medicates by reading his sappy scribblings aloud to a rapt writing group — Sanders seems drained and becalmed.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
“It’s relaxing and complementary to a doctor’s dry eye treatments — like medicated drops or in-office treatments — but it’s not a simple fix or cure all,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026
Products passing through the giant site range from insulin capsules and lifestyle drugs to medicated sunblock and drums of sulphuric acid.
From Barron's ● Apr. 5, 2026
She said she is furious that she is having to go through an early medicated menopause because there are too many people ahead of her on the surgical waiting list.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2026
He was medicated not to treat the underlying psychiatric condition, his mother said, but to keep him calm in school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
Her hair and the pillow were the same color, beneath the wimple of the medicated cloth she looked like an old nun praying.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
Earlier this year, England's Chief Medical Officer Prof Sir Chris Whitty said it would be a "societal failure" if medicating people for life was our only answer to obesity.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
There was a stigma associated with ADHD—such as that students who had it weren’t very bright—and they didn’t like the idea of medicating their children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
In 2018, a federal judge found that forcibly medicating children without the permission of their parents violated child welfare laws.
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2024
This stands in stark contrast with medicating symptoms of mood disorders or using behavioral tools to change thinking and behaviors.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2022
All cases that I have ever seen with great bowel distention are those coming into my care after being subjected to the usual feeding and medicating.
From Appendicitis by John Henry Tilden
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